• The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 4)
    The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 4)

    Now, as in the worldwide revolutionary upsurge of the 1960s-70s, the strongest emotive and analytical connections between China’s historical experience and the Palestinian resistance come through the memory of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

    The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 3)
    The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 3)

    In the last section we explored the Axis of Resistance and its pursuit of material self-sufficiency, as well as Basel al-Araj’s incisive Mao-inspired analysis of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior enemy.

    The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 2)
    The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 2)

    Notwithstanding Mao’s admonition to his PLO visitors to avoid book worship—including and especially of his own works—his writings on guerrilla warfare had by then become canon, and for good reason.

    The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 1)
    The gates of the great continent: Palestine, China, and the war for humanity’s future (Part 1)

    As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its sixth month, Qiao Collective presents an urgent intervention from Charles Xu on the Palestinian resistance and the place of China, its people, and their revolutionary legacy in the global solidarity movement.

    The Historical Origin of “The Singing Union”
    The Historical Origin of “The Singing Union”

    The early history of the Industrial Workers of the World has become the stuff of legend for the U.S. socialist left. Key to the legendary status of the early IWW is the notion that the organization was a “singing union.”

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